The Rangers, who also got goals from Rick Nash and Ryan McDonagh, lead the best-of-seven Eastern Conference final 2-0, with Game 3 set for Thursday in New York.

St. Louis scored a day after he and his teammates attended the funeral of his mother, who died just before Mother's Day. The Rangers have rallied around the grieving winger and have won five in a row.

"It's been an emotional weekend," St. Louis said. "I'll definitely never forget this weekend for many reasons, but I think the grieving process will still take a while. But that stuff is behind me.

"Tonight, we wanted to make sure we'd have the emotion we'd need to win this game because we knew they would come out hard, especially rallying, losing their best player, so I thought we answered."

Max Pacioretty scored for the Canadiens, who outshot New York 41-30.

Lundqvist made sure Montreal's shot total didn't matter.

"He's the only reason we were still in the game," Rangers head coach Alain Vigneault said. "They had total control of the pressure."

Canadiens goalie Dustin Tokarski made 27 saves in place of Price, the Olympic gold medalist who hurt his right knee in the series opener when New York's Chris Kreider crashed into the net. Price will miss the rest of the series.

"Really disappointed," Montreal head coach Michel Therrien said before the game. "He's our best player. We need to rally around Carey. We need to give him a chance to play again this season."

Briefly: Chicago centerAndrew Shaw is questionable for Wednesday's Game 2 of the Western Conference finals against Los Angeles because of a lower-body injury. ... General manager Bob Murray has agreed to a four-year contract extension with Anaheim. The Ducks announced Murray's deal three days after Anaheim was eliminated from the playoffs.